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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby
Sorry to hear about that Dave but honestly at 175k it was on borrowed time I'm afraid.
Misfire codes could be plugs as well have you done them recently? I assume you did the fuel filter itself as well or is it oroginslv
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The shop replaced the filter/FPR unit along with the pump/sender unit and the left-side sender. I didn't realize until now that there are two senders in the X5's tank.
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Originally Posted by upallnight
Anytime you have a misfire and the DME detects the misfire, it will perform a fuel shut of that cylinder to prevent destroying the converters. If you had sputtering that mean the engine is not receiving fuel and the DME will diagnose that as a misfire and begin the process of fuel cutoff. Shutting the engine clear the misfire count and the DME will begin counting the misfire again until it reach the predetermine number for fuel cutoff.
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That's good info; thanks!
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Originally Posted by upallnight
This is one reason why I rent a car when we take a road trip greater then a couple of hundred miles. If the car breaks down, I'll just call the rental agency to tell them where their cars is and ask when they can get me another car.
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Actually, my original plan was to take my '88 e32 735i/5-speed, but my wife wasn't comfortable with the idea of taking "the old car" on a 3,000 mile trip. I guess she forgot about the 2,000 mile trip we took that car on last summer; it performed flawlessly except for a tire problem. For me, I was far more confident that the 735i would make the trip without incident, and if anything were to go wrong I'd be able to fix it on my own. And to think I paid more for the repair on the X5 this week than I paid to acquire that 735i four years ago.
The rental car turned out to be ok, but part of the reason for the trip was to go to the
Vintage at the Vinyards show in Winston-Salem, NC. True, the X5 wouldn't have been part of the show, but driving there without a BMW just wasn't the same.